Hunters Useless? Or CB Elitism?Follow

I was somewhat disturbed when I found the following excerpt:



What?

Is this the elitist babble of a closed beta "ub3r" player or is there any truth behind it?

The way I saw it, as a Hunter I can do some really good damage and my pet can tank or backup tank or serve as an extra tank when fighting multiple mobs. I can also enfeeble in the form of stings, and can heal my pet while it's tanking.

I am very much interested in doing high level instances...

What's going on here???

EDIT - to clarify, I'm talking specifically about high level instances ....

Edited, Tue Dec 14 18:27:25 2004 by kingjord

Hunters, in a cookie cutter group, are dps, and are good at it.

In the more likely pick up groups they are ussually tank/offtank.

In high level instances the elitests wont ussually seek you out, simply because they want the best tank(warrior), the best healer(priest), the best dps/cc(rogue/mage). This will change on the course of availability of course, specially since on alliance pallys can tank just as well, druids and shamans if speced right will heal just the same as a priest, and hunter/warlocks have a lot more utility than pure dps(offtanks, soulstone resurection, other little additions).

In other words, yes, elitist psychobable.

Admittedly I have yet to do the high level instances, but quite frankly I think this person has no idea what they're talking about.

Hunters serve two pretty important functions while in the party (well at least the ones I've been in). The first is crowd control. They can engage multiple mobs easily, and also between use of a pet, and a few key abilities pull mobs off healers and/or weaker characters pretty easily. With wing-clip and concussive shot we can usually prevent runners from bringing new mobs to the fight.

The second thing is scouting/intelligence. That's why we have a dozen tracking abilities. If you're looking for a particular mob, or simply want to know how much is going to aggro when you go to attack the mob around the corner, hunters can tell you that.

The enfeebling and pet tanking you mentioned is also a bonus for any party.

Quite frankly I think this is a joke.

This guy never played the game is my idea. I assure you...I rock. =P

PFFF I dont need your stupid groups anyway!

But seriously... the fastest lvlers are rogue and PLD hands down =D

I'm not sure if you would classify this as a high level situation, but it's the best I have to offer. :)

My guild was putting together a group for an instanced dungeon. At the time, they had a mage, a rogue, and warlock. They were waiting for a tank and a healer... and waiting.. and waiting.. (considering I've seen all of three priests in 31 levels, I figured they'd be waiting for a while)

Anyway, my buddy and I offer to take up the last two spots, and the group reluctantly agreed. Being both hunters, the group assumed we were in trouble. :)

Anyway, I tend to have a domineering and forceful personality, so when we showed up, I took charge (it also helped that I had done the instance once before, and no one else had).

The two hunter pets (I use a spider, my fellow hunter used a bear) would instantly take agro on a mob, with myself off-tanking the third (which there rarely were). Between my "Mend Pet" spell, the insane damage that only a 5 DPS group can put out, and l33t skillz (kidding) we were able to finish the instance, kill the boss, and walk out of there without anyone dying.

This was around a level 30 dungeon, sorry if I failed to mention that.

Anyway, the point of this lecture (if it can be called that) is to try to say "Yes, Hunters have uses as either DPS or as tanks. While we ourselves do not have taunt, our pets have a taunt that excels (it's not uncommon for a tank to not be able to pull agro from my pet), as well as being usefull for pulling and tactics (Tracking helps a great deal with these last two)."

Thanks, sorry this is so long.

-Bellum Gero